I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.